Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior
among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.
The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking
someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
The
Lord dropped something into my spirit a few years ago and I’m reminded of it
today. “Don’t let the enemy bully you in your emotions.”
One
thing I’ve learned in my 52 years is that many people who are bullies as
children do not grow out of that behavior into adulthood, and people who tend
to be easy targets for bullies don’t always grow out of that tendency into
adulthood. You can find bullies and victims of bullying even in the workplace
as adults.
When
discussing bullies one thing that is usually said still rings true, “They do you that way because they know they
can. As long as they can get away with it by you not standing up to them, they
will continue to bully you. As long as they can get a rise, a reaction out of
you they will continue to entertain themselves with your reactions.”
Something else I’ve learned about bullies is that when you stand up to them,
stand up for yourself, even if you “lose” the fight, you’ll still earn their
respect and they will often find someone who will remain the victim.
When
you think about it, where do you think the behavior originates from? God, or the devil? So when we recognize the
author of that behavior we can better see how the enemy will do the same thing
to us emotionally.
He
knows that he can say certain things, cause certain things to happen, use
people to say or do certain things to get a rise or reaction out of us. When we show him that at the least sign of
something we don’t like we resort to complaining and self-pity, [Proverbs 24:10] he learns how to perfectly
time his attacks and with every attack he adds in a special little something
extra: Some negative suggestion that he whispers to you so you can start
repeating it in your frustration. As you agree with him in your heart and with
your words you become a perfect target for his bullying. Not resulting in black
eyes or other physical bruises, but in your emotions, dragging you down every
time you think you might be about to see some type of daylight. Learn to FIGHT. SPEAK UP. STAND UP. GUARD
YOUR HEART BY KEEPING A HANDLE ON YOUR EMOTIONS. There’s nothing new under the
sun. Everybody is dealing with mess they’d rather not deal with. Put on your
big girl panties or big boy boxers and put your spiritual dukes up and fight.
Use that power of life and death that’s in your tongue and come out of the role
of being a victim to the devil’s bullying.
I
saw a quote that said, “I got hated on
for being myself, so I started hating myself”. When you think about it,
doesn’t that describe the enemy of your soul?
He hates you simply because of who you are! A child of the Most High
God, a Royal Priesthood, an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. You’re on
your way to the place he got kicked out of when he showed his tail. You’ve been
promoted into the spot that was left vacant when he lost his position in
heaven. Of course he hates your guts and his mission is to convince you to hate
yourself just as much by trying to convince you through life’s trials and the
lies he tells you about yourself. He wants to badger you to the point that you
feel like this is just the way it is, or that you somehow deserve or are the
cause of the abuse, so you just join his club. Don’t let him do that to you! He’s
doing it because you allow it. He’s doing it simply because he can. It may sound like I too, am
accusing you for what he’s doing to you. I understand that feeling. I used to
feel that way at first, but it’s really not the case. I’m simply shedding a
light on the trick he’s been playing on you and getting the same results over
and over. [Hosea 4:6] [2 Corinthians 2:11] If he can keep your spiritual
eyes black, blue and swollen shut from his verbal beatings they will never be
opened to see him for what he is. If he can keep your attention focused on what
he is saying instead of that God has said about you, you will never have your
faith increased by hearing the actual truth about who you are.
So
check yourself before he makes you wreck yourself. Check your emotions. What are you feeling?
What are you hearing when you feel certain things in your emotions? The things that you are hearing, are they in
line with how God says He feels about you in His Word in scriptures like [Jeremiah 29:11] or are they more in line with
what the Word says about what the enemy wants to do [John 10:10]? Are you experiencing anxiety
or peace? Do you feel abandoned, or loved?
It’s really simple. As we begin to retrain ourselves to think and speak
according the Word we will find ourselves spending less time entertaining what
the enemy is doing and being entertainment for the enemy, and more time walking in complete victory.
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